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Friday, January 27, 2006

(Not Only) Lorem Ipsum - online random text generator


Ever wondered what that "Lorem Ipsum" dummy text means? According to this website nothing really.
It is known that people are distracted by readable text, so when displaying a typeface, publishers use lipsum to make people focus on the typeface and not on the content.

Now where it gets interesting is, that this website has an online random lipsum text generator, that can generate the dummy text in other languages, such as Elven Quenya, Morse code, Greek, Russian, Arabic, Esperanto and more...

Well I know I'm only using Quenya from now on for the dummy text. :-)

You can even change the default placeholder text in InDesign by putting a file called placeholder.txt into InDesign application folder. InDesign will than use whatever is in that file as a dummy placeholder text.

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